Whale Breeding. The proper terms for whales are calves for the newborns, cows for the adult females, and bulls for the adult males. The age of maturity depends on the species of whale, but typically it ranges been 7 and 10 years of age. There isnât enough information to determine how whales select who they will mate with.
In the 1968 BBC Radio serialization of The Hobbit, Bilbo was played by Paul Daneman. Nicol Williamson portrayed Bilbo with a light West Country accent in the 1974 performance released on Argo Records. In the 1977 Rankin/Bass animated version of The Hobbit, Bilbo was voiced by Orson Bean.
In The Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit in comfortable middle age at 50 years old, was hired despite his objections as a burglar by the wizard Gandalf and 13 Dwarves led by their king Thorin Oakenshield on a quest to reclaim the Lonely Mountain and its treasure from the dragon Smaug.